American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric108
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing77
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States77
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM74
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM71
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates66
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis52
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet50
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes48
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism48
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification45
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China43
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior42
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest40
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election38
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements37
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America37
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites37
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors37
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR35
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension35
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia34
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Structural Responsibility33
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance33
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection33
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202033
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination32
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa31
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability31
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach31
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India31
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act30
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress30
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings30
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd28
Representative Democracy and Social Equality28
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes28
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age27
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations26
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation25
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction25
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Curation Bubbles24
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?24
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data24
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution24
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes23
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM23
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy23
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM23
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity23
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance22
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe22
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution22
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”22
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
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Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced21
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act21
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International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States20
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures20
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty20
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico19
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism19
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM19
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology19
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy19
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes19
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries18
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank18
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing18
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM18
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures18
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform18
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices18
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship18
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques18
Partisan Leaning17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change17
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below16
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party16
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany16
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism16
“Moderates”15
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact15
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Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals15
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle15
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization15
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis15
The Class Ceiling in Politics15
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM14
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes14
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities14
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category14
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland14
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Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?13
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia13
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria13
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation13
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Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe13
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds13
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism12
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies12
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators12
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM11
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems11
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BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM11
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Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece11
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire10
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils10
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1910
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models10
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism10
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism10
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level10
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data10
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak10
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice10
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Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
The Right to Hunger Strike9
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea9
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community9
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Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains8
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments8
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The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism8
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?8
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery7
Rebel Motivations and Repression7
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior7
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem7
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience7
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections7
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization7
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization7
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid7
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base7
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods7
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Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements6
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)6
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence6
Notes from the Editors6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis6
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland6
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability6
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda6
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness6
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability6
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”6
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia6
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Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan6
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries5
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization5
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home5
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources5
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights5
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics5
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies5
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico5
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination5
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes5
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia5
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies5
Notes from the Editors5
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism5
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication5
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM5
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences5
A New Measure of Affective Polarization5
The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations5
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains5
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Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities5
Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police and Judicial Responses to Women’s Cases in India4
What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism: The Case of Unequal Trade in Cultural Goods4
Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions4
Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism4
Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers4
Se Habla Español: Spanish-Language Appeals and Candidate Evaluations in the United States4
Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior4
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program4
Ideology for the Future4
Civic Responses to Police Violence4
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